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Vicente Valentim

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Assistant prof at IE University. Previously EUI and Oxford. Researching what we think is ok to do in a democracy & how that changes. Book on the normalization of the radical right: https://academic.oup.com/book/57946 More at www.vicentevalentim.com

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · Nov 12

My book “The Normalization of the Radical Right” has recently come out in the US.

If you're interested, in this thread I’ll link different ways of learning about the book and its argument (I’ll keep adding if more come out).

First, here is the link to the book: academic.oup.com/book/57946

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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to co-chair the Migration Politics section with @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social at the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Submit your abstracts by Nov 7!

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 1d

This is your heads up that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast is a month from now (Nov 7)! I'm chairing the Migration Politics section w/ @aalrababah.bsky.social and we're excited to receive contributions from across the discipline🕺🏻

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 6d

▶️ Migration Politics

👉🏽 Section chairs: @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & @aalrababah.bsky.social

📢 Our section section brings together research on the politics of migration, including migration flows, government policies to manage mobility, and the politics of forced displacement. >>>

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 1d

Despite the grim topic, this is a very good paper: monuments that signal white supremacy can substitute performative violence and thus reduce it.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Political Symbols and Social Order: Confederate Monuments and Performative Violence in the Post-Reconstruction U.S. South | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Political Symbols and Social Order: Confederate Monuments and Performative Violence in the Post-Reconstruction U.S. South

www.cambridge.org

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 1d

Veja-se, por exemplo: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 1d

Não quero ser um disco estragado, mas continua a acontecer...

Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 1d

O que os estudos acerca disto sugerem é que uma aproximação à direita radical não reduz o seu sucesso eleitoral.

E o nosso trabalho sugere também que fazê-lo contribui ainda mais para a normalização da retórica de ultra direita.

expresso.pt/politica/ele...

Passos aconselha fim das "linhas vermelhas" com o Chega; Ventura e Carneiro atiram a Montenegro

Luís Montenegro e José Luís Carneiro vão andar a sul do Tejo, já André Ventura vai fazer campanha no centro do país. Os dois líderes dos maiores partidos da oposição começaram o dia a atacar o Governo...

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EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · 2d

🎉 Congratulations to our alumna @nerealidad.bsky.social, PhD supervised by Prof @eliasdinas.bsky.social, who has received the Juan Linz Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Political Science from cepcgob.bsky.social !👏

Read more 👉 www.cepc.gob.es/noticias/res...

Resolución de concesión del Premio Juan Linz 2024 | CEPC

www.cepc.gob.es

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 2d

🆕💼 Today marks a new chapter: I'm starting as a Researcher at @moreincommonuk.bsky.social in Spain!

After 4 years working on my PhD, it was time for the next step. Grateful to my supervisors and colleagues, I learned so much and will miss working alongside them.

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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 5d

Im Februar hat @tabouchadi.bsky.social die Forschungsergebnisse dazu mal gut zusammengefasst. Auch @valentimvicente.bsky.social und @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social haben tolle Beiträge geliefert.

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Aus dem Abseits in die Mitte der Demokratie

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 6d

Fair, but I also think this is compatible with not being to confident one "knows the truth" :) But having a strong intuition (eg based on background) about the way something works is often a very good way of coming up with good theories.

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 6d

I think the idea is that one should (a) cultivate an inner understanding of how the world works and (b) apply it to questions where that understanding clashes with established knowledge the most. I think that is compatible with the motivation being to understand the world.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 6d

Loyalty oaths for universities. The thing of the Third Reich. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 6d

I loved this post (like all in this substack).

Reminded me of the argument by Geddes (2003) that most good research ideas come from annoyance with established wisdom that clashes with one's inner sense of how the world works.

Really recommend reading this one:

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 6d

New Etched in Marble post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

Timothy Garton Ash has for decades chronicled Europe’s upheavals with a historian’s depth & a journalist’s eye.

In my conversation with Garton Ash, one theme stood out: writing as a defense of democracy.

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Etched in Marble: Timothy Garton Ash on Writing, Freedom, and the Lost Art of Disagreement

Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 6d

York has seen a steep rise in racist assaults -both verbal and physical- in recent weeks. This should not be tolerated. If you are around on Saturday, join.

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations Tom!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d

Work with great people. Live in Madrid. Eat like this all the time.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 7d

A paper from #APSA2025 has been uploaded to @apsa-preprints.bsky.social -

Real-World Sanctioning of Stigmatized Political Preferences - https://cup.org/4mF6MbO

- @amaliaab.bsky.social & @valentimvicente.bsky.social

#preprint

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 8d

One week left to apply for the three tenure track positions at IE University (details below).

Come join a great department in a great city.

Deadline October 6th!

IE Political Science @iepolisci.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨

We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.

We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8d

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 9d

Poll after poll shows corruption is THE issue voters care about. And Jeffries goes out of his way to praise Adams, whose public corruption charges were dropped after Trump’s DOJ unceremoniously shut the case down?

Democrats have the winning hand right in front of them. Wild that they won’t play it.

statement titled “Leader Jeffries Statement on Mayor Eric L. Adams.” It says Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries thanked Adams for decades of service as an NYPD officer, state senator, Brooklyn Borough President, and New York City’s 110th mayor. The statement highlights achievements under Adams, including reduced violent crime, more affordable housing, and recovery from COVID-19. Jeffries acknowledges ongoing challenges like the high cost of living but says meaningful progress was made. He thanks Adams for his service and says that in the coming days his focus will shift to Republican healthcare and government funding issues, and that he will comment on the remaining mayoral candidates before early voting begins.

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 9d

This seems important in a world where so many countries are turning against immigration:

"A structural estimation of a model of endogenous growth and migrations suggests the increased immigration to the US since 1965 may have increased innovation and wages by 5%."

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 9d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Immigration, Innovation, and Growth" by Stephen J. Terry, Thomas Chaney, Konrad B. Burchardi, Lisa Tarquinio, and Tarek A. Hassan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Immigration, Innovation, and Growth

(Forthcoming Article) - We propose a novel identification strategy to isolate exogenous immigration shocks across US counties, by interacting quasi-random variations in the composition of ancestry acr...

www.aeaweb.org

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 9d

This is amazing, thanks so much indeed!

Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 9d

This is brilliant, thanks so much! I owe you one :)

Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 9d

Brilliant, thank you! Unfortunately the link is broken, do you have an alternative one? (DM works too!)

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 9d

If you know where to find only a subset of these elections (e.g., federal), that's also very much appreciated! The only thing we really do need is for them to be post-electoral.

Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 9d

This is for a project with the great @katharinalawall.bsky.social